Parisetti, Iunioris Ludouici Pariseti Regiensis, Venice, Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1552, eighteenth-century vellum

Parisetti, Lodovico. Iunioris Ludouici Pariseti Regiensis De diuina in hominem beneuolentia, atque beneficentia orationes tres ad viros Regienses habitae. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1552

8vo (160 x 95 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-GG⁸: 240 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, instances of early marginalia. (Scattered foxing and browning.)

binding: Eighteenth-century vellum (165 x 110 mm), flat spine, gilt-lettered red and green leather labels to spine, edges stained blue. (Minor soiling, chips to label.)

provenance: Inscription "Fratris Serafini Mauri Lecoris (?)" to title — Stelio Valentini, ex libris "Collezione Aldina di Stelio Valentini" — Christie's Rome, 14 June 2001, lot 318 (part lot). acquisition: Purchased at Christie's via Michel Wittock. references: UCLA 432; Renouard 154/9; Edit16 27174; USTC 846804